Comments on: Creativity: The Lost Commodity

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:47:48 +0000

WOW… a great post and an awesome list of books to read. Oh no…. more books. haha Thanks for all of the above!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:47:48 +0000

WOW… a great post and an awesome list of books to read. Oh no…. more books. haha Thanks for all of the above!

By: homenotion

homenotion — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:58:55 +0000

Being a creative writer requires a conscious effort. It should be about your own personal thoughts integrated with facts that you learn.

So many things I read are just regurgitated facts which doesn't make for much creative reading, or I read things that are so obscure I can't make any sense of it.

When writing online it's sort of like writing for a newspaper it has to be easy to read and painless to get through. Ryan, you write perfectly and I think most readers would agree. Your style and creativity is certainly one to mimic ;-)

By: carlon

carlon — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:46:51 +0000

Ryan,

If you haven't picked up "What the Dog Saw", you can just go to Gladwell.com and read the New Yorker archive. Most of the stories in that book re in the archive (or it might be ALL of them). You might be interested in the one called "The Pitchmen" where it talks about RonCo and the infomercial. As for books, I liked Outliers..

By: Ryan Healy

Ryan Healy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:39:45 +0000

I actually enjoy children's literature quite a bit. We get about 25 kid books from the library every 3 weeks to read to our kids. :-)

By: carlon

carlon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:10:23 +0000

For creativity, I read children's books. Seriously! Children's books do more to spark creativity than most book I've read about being creative.

I reviewed Eric Carle's “Draw Me a Star” for a friend's blog and seriously think it should be required reading.

By: lee45

lee45 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:41:03 +0000

A good recommendation.

By: anitaashland

anitaashland — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:23:58 +0000

Lateral thinking is one of my favorite ways to be creative and get out of my routine. Malcolm Gladwell's new book What the Dog Saw is an excellent lateral thinking book.

By: Ryan Healy

Ryan Healy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:30:08 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. I like Gladwell's books, but haven't read that one yet.

By: Ryan McGrath

Ryan McGrath — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:55:28 +0000

Your post reminded me of what Napoleon Hill talks about in Think and Grow Rich, creative vs. synthetic imagination…